The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb and Other Cases
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The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best – but there are many stories here which would get the vote – ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb.
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The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best – but there are many stories here which would get the vote – ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb.
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